Cardi B breaks Apple Music record as Invasion Of Privacy passes 100m streams

Cardi now has the record for woman artist with highest first week album streams.

Cardi B has broken an Apple Music record with her debut album being streamed over 100m times in a week, The Verge reports. The data was given to the publication by Apple and means that Cardi breaks a record for first-week streams by a woman artist on the service previously held by Taylor Swift.

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In fact, Invasion of Privacy doubled the previous streaming record set by Swift’s Reputation in 2017. It is now the fifth most-streamed album ever on Apple Music. The album went gold immediately after its release thanks to the inclusion of "Bodak Yellow" on the tracklist.